Concluding the Wordless Music concert is the U.S. premiere of composer/guitarist Manuel Gttsching's electronic composition E2-E4. E2-E4 was recorded in real time and with no overdubs by Gttsching (a member of Ash Ra Tempel) on December 12, 1981. Although the album initially sold fewer than 3,000 copies, it was soon discovered by early dance- and electronic-music figures such as Larry Levan and Juan Atkins, and is today generally acknowledged as a influential starting point for early techno and house music. E2-E4 builds from calm and quiet to multiple layers of texture and repetition, culminating in an ecstatic groove. Collaborating with Gttsching for the first-ever US live performance of E2-E4 will be visual artist Joshua White (The Joshua Light Show), who will create a live visual projection designed specially for E2-E4 to be projected on the surface of the Damrosch Bandshell. The projection uses “liquid light" techniques developed at Bill Graham's Fillmore East during the late 1960s.
Apparently he'll be playing old Ashra/Tempel tracks at the Philadelphia show. Incredible. Now I may have to trek up to the Lincoln Center to hear E2-E4.
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